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Murphy James Foster was born on January 12, 1849 on a plantation near Franklin, Louisiana. He was a son of Thomas Jefferson and Martha (Murphy) Foster. On his father’s side he was of English, French, and Spanish descent; and on his mother’s side, of English and Irish. His paternal grandparents, Levi and Leida (Demaret) Foster, were residents of Louisiana before its purchase in 1803.
Murphy Foster was educated at a private school in Franklin, at Washington and Lee University, and at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1870 (Who’s Who in America, 1920-21). He was also graduated from the law department of Tulane University in 1871 and engaged immediately in the practise of law in New Orleans.
Murphy Foster entered politics early and was elected in 1876 from St. Mary Parish to the state legislature, the so-called McEnery legislature, but was prevented from taking his seat by the Kellogg government.
In 1879, following the termination of the Carpet-Bag rule in Louisiana, he was elected to the state Senate from the tenth district and served continuously for three terms of four years each (1880—92).
He was elected president of the Senate in 1888 and served in that capacity for two years. In 1890 the question of renewing the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery Company came up for consideration in the state legislature.
This company had been granted a charter by the Carpet-Bag legislature in 1868 for a period of twenty-five years, in consideration of an annual license fee of $40, 000. It now offered to pay $1, 250, 000 a year for twenty-five years if its charter were extended.
This proposal of the company thereupon became the dominant issue in the state. Foster was bitterly opposed to the renewing of the charter and led the fight against it in the Senate.
He became the candidate of the anti-lottery faction of the Democratic party for governor in the primary election of 1892 and was elected by a majority of over 32, 000 in a total vote of over The proposal to renew the charter of the Lottery Company was overwhelmingly defeated and the company discontinued business in Louisiana in December 1892 and withdrew to Honduras.
Foster was reelected governor in 1896 in a campaign marked by great political bitterness between the Democrats and the ‘‘Lily White” Republicans—the sugar planters of Louisiana, hitherto Democrats, who felt they were being deprived by the Wilson-Gorman Act of 1893 of the protection they needed against Cuban sugar.
This Lily White Republican party was so called because they aimed to keep it a strictly white man’s organization. They nominated John Newton Pharr, a former Confederate soldier, for governor and polled such a heavy vote for him that they contested the election in the state legislature.
The decision of the legislature was however in Foster’s favor, and he served until 1900. As an outcome of this campaign and very largely through the influence of Foster, a new state constitution was adopted in 1898, which made it impossible for any political party to use ignorant colored voters in future elections, by denying the right to vote to those who could not read and write or who did not own property whose assessed valuation was at least $300, and by adopting the famous “grandfather clause. ”
In 1900 at the expiration of his second term, Foster was elected to the United States Senate by the Louisiana state legislature and was reelected by the people of the state in 1906» serving for t velve years.
On being defeated for reelection in 1912, he resumed the practise of law at Franklin but was shortly appointed United States collector of customs at New Orleans. He was holding that position at the time of his death.
Foster died in 1921 on the Dixie Plantation near Franklin, some nine years before his grandson and namesake, a future governor of the state, was born.
One of the Foster's chief achievements was in adoption of the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, which effectively disfranchised the black majority, who comprised most of the Republicans, thus leading to Louisiana's becoming essentially a one-party (Democratic) state for several generations and excluding African Americans from the political system. He had a successfull career as a statesman and local politician serving in the Louisiana State Legislature, and in the Louisiana State Senate, where he was President Pro-Tem from 1888 to 1890. He was elected as Governor of Louisiana in 1891, and served from 1892 to 1900. He was then elected as a Democratic Senator from Louisiana to the United States Senate, serving from 1901 to 1913. In 1997, Foster was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
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In his political affiliation Foster was a Democrat, so he was elected governor as the Democratic Party nominee, and he had the support of the Farmer's Alliance, a populist group, as well.
On May 15, 1877, Murphy James Foster married Florence Daisy Hine, the daughter of Franklin merchant T. D. Hine. She died on August 26, 1877, at age 19. In 1881, he married Rose Routh Ker, daughter of Captain John Ker and the former Rose Routh of Ouida Plantation in West Feliciana Parish near Baton Rouge. They produced ten children, nine of whom reached maturity.
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Louisiana state senator, United States Attorney, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor His lieutenant governors were Charles Parlange and Hiram R. Lott, during his first term, and Robert H. Snyder of Tensas Parish in the second term.
Democratic politician from St. Joseph, the parish seat of Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
Louisiana politician who served as a State Senator and later became Lieutenant Governor.
Foster appointed William B. Bailey, the co-founder of the Lafayette Daily Advertiser and the former mayor of Lafayette as the clerk of the state district court for Lafayette Parish.
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